Chapter 21: Warehouse

Piper, Leo, Kyle, Paige, and Jason all followed Phoebe up the stairs to attic. The three sisters split up to find the box that Phoebe had put Cole's stuff in when he 'died'.

As they were searching, Piper asked, "Kyle, run this by me again. What did you want us to do?"

"He wants us to break a dozen federal laws," Phoebe quirked.

"Is that all?" Piper replied sarcastically.

"Found it!" Phoebe exclaimed and pulled out a box. She wiped off the dust and began to cough as it flew up around her face. She waved her hand in front of her face to disperse the dust.

Very carefully, she opened the box. Kyle came over to her and warned her to touch nothing. "Is there anything in there that he would have touched and no one else?"

Phoebe looked at the objects. "That chalice," she said, indicating the golden cup. "I touched the base, but he touched the cup part. It was used in his coronation ceremony."

Kyle looked at her. "I don't even want to know the details."

"My ex-husband was the source of all evil."

"Oh. That's nice."

Phoebe rummaged through the box and pulled out a vile filled with bright pink liquid. "This is a potion made with his blood."

"You still have that?" Piper asked, surprised.

"If you think that's bad," she rummaged in the box until she brought out a jar with a hunk of red meat sitting in the middle. She held up the jar.

"Eww, Phoebe, that is gross. That has to be rotten by now. I can't believe you kept that!"

"I put a freeze-dry spell on it. It should still be fresh."

"You are the weirdest witches I've ever met," Kyle commented.

"We're also the most powerful witches who happen to have demonic ex-husbands who like to come back from the dead."

"Good point," Piper said.

"Jeeze, Phoebe. I always knew you had a thing for bad boys, but…" Jason trailed off.

Phoebe stood up and hugged him. "Don't worry, honey. That was a long time ago."

"I think we have everything we need," Kyle said, picking up the box."

"So what do we do now?"

"I'll come back a eleven tonight with everything we need." Kyle took the box and walked out of the attic.

"I wish I could blow him up. I really do."

"Be careful what you wish for. You know how things run in this family."

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Once they were at the Warehouse, they split up into groups. Phoebe and Jason went to the surveillance room to keep an eye on the cameras to see if anyone was coming. Piper and Leo went to evidence room to collect all the evidence from Prue and Dr. Griffith's murder. Paige and Kyle went to the computer room where Kyle would falsify all the evidence.

Phoebe and Jason made themselves quite comfortable watching the video cameras. Phoebe sat on Jason's lap and he gently rubbed her belly and her shoulders.

Piper and Leo finally found Prue's stuff in the evidence room. Piper, unable to look at it, let Leo pile it into a box. She instead found the hardcopy of the file they kept on the murders. Piper opened it and the first thing she was a picture of Prue, lying on the remnants of what once was a wall, blood coming from her ears.

Piper let a small gasp escape from her lips and Leo came to her. "Piper?" he whispered gently, but his wife did not answer.

Piper slowly ran a finger of the picture of her dearly departed sister. "Piper, honey, we have to go." Leo took the file from her, closed it, and put it in the box.

Piper obediently followed him to where Paige and Kyle were working on the computer. Or rather, Kyle was working on the computer and Paige was watching him with interest.

"Here's the stuff," Leo said and set the box down next to Kyle.

Kyle took out a couple of things out of the box and took a glove he had transferred Cole's fingerprints to and put Cole's fingerprints on the objects. Every time he did that he entered it into the computer so Vermillion couldn't find any discrepancies.

He did the same things with a sample of Cole's blood. He was almost done when Piper's cell phone rang.

"Hello?"

"Piper!" Phoebe's voice called out. "Vermillion's headed right for you! You have to get out of there!"

Piper hung up and told Leo and Paige who were looking at her. "Vermillion's"

"Vermillion's what?" asked a voice and Piper turned to see Officer Vermillion standing behind her, gun held at ready. "Well, well. What do we have here? Two Halliwells. Where's the third? I suspect she's around here somewhere."

As he said that, Phoebe and Jason came running into the room, holding hands. "He's" Vermillion turned and trained his gun on them. "here."

Kyle took Vermillion's distraction to his advantage. He whipped out his own gun, but did not shoot Vermillion. Instead, he hit him hard on the back of the head with the butt of the gun. Vermillion fell to the floor like a pile of limp rags.

"Nice shot," Paige commented.

"Thanks," he said, holstering his weapon. "Let's finish this up and get out of here. Leo, would you orb him out of here?"

"Where?"

"To his house would be bed. Hopefully he'll wake up and think this was all a dream."

Leo did as he was asked and the others got back to work.

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Three weeks later, Piper answered the door and officer Vermillion was standing at the door. "What do you want now? Come to charge us for murder?"

"Actually, I came to apologize."

Piper looked at him doubtfully.

"In light of recent evidence, it seems Cole Turner killed your sister."

"Another officer already told us."

"I know. I just wanted to give you my apologizes for disrupting your life."

"Okay," She said and closed the door.

Phoebe and Paige were right there. "I can't believe he apologized."

"I'm just glad he's off our backs."

"We couldn't have done it without Kyle," Paige said with a smile.

"You're right," Piper admitted.

"So does that mean you trust him?"

"I guess I don't have a choice. I take it that he's going to be around a lot?"

"A whole lot," Paige said with an even bigger smile.